A few days ago, Tencent Holdings' 2026 campus recruitment officially launched, targeting university students graduating between January 2025 and December 2026, offering over 70 positions across five major categories: technology, product, design, marketing, and operations.

Before writing this piece, I spoke with numerous Tencent employees, asking them: "If you could go back to your campus recruitment days, would you choose Tencent again?" The responses were almost universally "yes." Even many who joined through social recruitment gave direct advice: "For fresh graduates, choosing Tencent is definitely the right choice."

After reviewing this round of campus recruitment policies, I'm genuinely impressed: even for the 2026 recruitment cycle, the value of "choose Tencent when available" seems to keep rising.

Let's discuss several key points about this recruitment wave:

**Significant Job Opening Increases**

First, looking at job quantities, Tencent's official livestream already announced that technical positions increased by over 25% compared to last year, with overall campus recruitment positions exceeding 20% growth. This expansion rate can be called "counter-cyclical recruitment" in today's job market - in an environment prioritizing stability, few companies dare to release positions so generously.

Beyond regular positions, two special programs deserve mention. One is the early-launched "Qingyun Plan," mainly recruiting top global technical students, accepting both PhD and master's/bachelor's candidates. Participants directly enter cutting-edge fields like AI large models, quantum computing, and robotics, with access to top-tier mentorship and computing resources.

The other highlight is this year's AI Product Manager Trainee project. This program is essentially an upgraded version of Tencent's flagship "Product Manager Trainee" program that has run for 12 years. The past program has cultivated over 400 excellent product managers, with more than 20 becoming Tencent's product leaders. This time, Tencent further focuses on AI, with clear intent: finding future talent capable of defining AI products.

**Direct Involvement in Core Business**

Can AI Product Manager trainees directly engage with core business? During recent group discussions about Tencent's recruitment round, someone asked: do campus recruits in such projects just do menial tasks?

A Tencent colleague explained that, using his business unit as an example, the success of large language models has significantly influenced big tech companies' hiring approaches. People with several years of experience might actually be constrained in large model technical exploration. So now, AI trainees joining Tencent can directly engage with core work.

For example, participating in "Yuanbao" feature optimization, adding smarter collaboration functions to Tencent Meeting, or even promoting the implementation of Hunyuan large model into specific product solutions - you can see many newcomers involved in these areas.

In summary: you're not there to "provide support," but to actually handle the steering wheel of core business.

**Why Such Resource Investment?**

Why dare to allocate such resources? Tencent colleagues revealed that from their perspective, AI has become a strategic priority for the company. This is even more evident in financial reports: as of June this year, the Hunyuan large model has been integrated into over 600 business scenarios - essentially everything imaginable has been connected.

Single-quarter R&D investment reached 20.251 billion yuan, up 17.2% year-over-year; global patent applications exceeded 88,000, with over 48,000 authorized.

**Comprehensive Mentorship for Personal Development**

The second hotly debated question in group discussions: what if there's no guidance after joining? After all, other big tech companies initially promise mentorship from experts, but reality often shows these experts are too busy to attend to newcomers.

Regarding Tencent's situation, I learned that this project directly aims to cultivate AI product leaders. It's not about randomly assigning an old employee to guide you, but having senior product leaders personally overseeing the process throughout. Resources are abundantly provided, which you can completely trust.

Tencent's AI application scenarios are almost unmatched domestically in terms of comprehensiveness. Returns are also substantial: competitive industry salaries plus dedicated promotion fast tracks.

This visible growth return rate, even in the worst case, while riding the current AI wave with Tencent treating AI as a strategic priority, the experience you accumulate at Tencent will be solid currency whether for internal promotion or external opportunities.

**Comprehensive Benefits Package**

Beyond career growth, let's discuss Tencent's various benefits:

For housing, campus recruits receive 7 days of free transitional hotel accommodation upon joining, helping with the housing search transition period. Later, you can enter the waiting list to apply for government public rental housing or talent subsidies. For home purchases, the "Housing Security Plan" provides eligible employees up to 900,000 yuan in interest-free loans - calculate how much interest you'd save.

Food is even better. Shenzhen headquarters alone has over ten cafeterias with cuisine from all over the country, free breakfast and dinner. Having eaten there several times myself, the saying "gain ten pounds in six months at Tencent" isn't exaggerated at all.

Other benefits include shuttle buses, 30 days of full-pay sick leave, lunch break lighting controls, various merchandise/cultural shirts, plus dozens of clubs (basketball, photography, mystery games - play whatever you want).

**Why "Choose Tencent When Available" Value Keeps Rising**

Since benefits depend on business performance, why does the value of "choose Tencent when available" keep increasing? Core reasons are two: stability and prospects.

A colleague who has worked at multiple big tech companies said Tencent has the best culture and is the most humane company he's experienced. Benefits are diverse, the company has a human touch, and colleagues are more like friends than competitors.

Additionally, Tencent's business is genuinely stable! Once situations become clear regarding opportunities, immediate follow-up occurs. Tencent has always valued campus recruitment talent, and with the stabilizing ballast of stable business, there's much more to strive for.

So, Class of 2026 students! If you want to venture into the AI field while finding a stable, generous, resource-rich platform, the saying remains: choose Tencent when available! Tencent is the most suitable internet company choice for campus recruits.

Think about it - if what you create successfully launches and hundreds of millions of users are using it, who could resist that sense of achievement?

Go ahead and apply! The resume submission portal is here: join.qq.com, directly search for "AI Product Manager Trainee."